IR Webinar: Are you ready for your AGM?
As companies prepare for their 2025 AGMs in May, June and beyond, we take a look at what has happened so far during the 2025 AGM season in the UK, across Europe and across the Atlantic.
- Key themes from the UK 2025 AGM season so far:
- ISS/GL and investor updates
- Executive remuneration and implications of 2024 AGM season outcomes
- Continued focus on board composition
- Increased focus on capital authorities
- Contested AGM votes
- Developments across Europe and globally:
- Virtual-only AGMs receive more scrutiny
- Developments on Say on Climate and non-financial reporting votes
- Pressure on executive remuneration
- Increased focus on DEI initiatives and disclosures
Moderator: Daniele Vitale

Head of ESG UK & Europe, Georgeson
Daniele joined Georgeson in 2010 and specialises in corporate governance, executive remuneration and ESG analysis. Daniele has more than twenty years of experience advising institutional investors and corporations on corporate governance, executive remuneration, ESG and proxy voting issues. At Georgeson he leads the 12-member European ESG and governance advisory team as well as editing numerous publications, including Georgeson’s annual European AGM Season Review. Previously he worked as Senior Researcher at PIRC Ltd, a London-based proxy advisory firm, and at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Deminor in Brussels. Daniele is Italian and is fluent in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish.
Guest speaker: Jocelyn Brown
Head of Governance, EMEA & APAC, T.Rowe Price
Jocelyn Brown is the head of Governance, EMEA and APAC, for T. Rowe Price International Ltd. She is a member of the ESG Committee. Jocelyn is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price International Ltd.
Jocelyn's industry experience began in 2008, and she has been with T. Rowe Price since 2020, beginning in the Governance department. Prior to this, Jocelyn was employed by the UK Railways Pension Scheme in the area of sustainable ownership.
Jocelyn earned an M.A. in history from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A., with distinction, from Imperial College London.
Guest speaker: Daniel Veazey

Corporate Governance Manager, Georgeson
Daniel joined Georgeson in 2023 as Corporate Governance Manager and specialises in stewardship, corporate governance, executive remuneration and ESG analysis. Daniel leads a team of governance analysts with responsibilities focused on engaging with companies and investors on upcoming shareholder meetings, shareholder activism and M&A scenarios. Daniel previously worked within the asset management industry with over 25 years’ experience with Schroders Investment Management as their Head of Corporate Governance and Wellington Management as Stewardship Practice Leader.
Guest speaker: Kirsteen Vickerstaff
CoSec, On The Beach
Photo & bio to follow.
Dates
- 12.00pm to 1.00pm Tuesday 29 April, 2025
Location
- Online - Zoom
Open to all Members and Non-members
- Free to Members
£0 - Non-members - £25 + VAT
£30